Audacity Forum

<<<older/remastered versions so it may be the recordings themselves and I may have to figure out something totally different>>> If they're old enough, they were never in stereo at all. Stereo is a big deal to getting all these tools to work. The tools make good use of the spacial separation between ...

<<<and now Audacity is only appearing in a language other than English >>> Edit (third selection) > Preferences > Interface (fourth selection) English (on the right). These settings are different on my machine, so I'm guessing a little. If that appeared to change by itself, you may have some serious...

Using the tools to the left of the track (black arrow) Split Stereo Track.

You can rejoin them into left and right stereo later.

Koz

So the short answer is you're never going to make it with that sound card. The 20dB Bass Boost just makes it more muffled without doing anything to improve the volume. The object is to be able to overload the microphone channel under test conditions. If you can't do that, then you have no place to g...

More from the list: Any instruments in the dead center -- usually drums and bass-- vanish along with the voice. Normally you end up with a mono show, not stereo. Mono masters in any form fail; two track mono or actual single track mono. Chorus singers are a crap shoot. If they're in the middle, they...

<<<Saving an Audacity project lets you save unfinished work and re-open it later in Audacity exactly as it was, with all edits and recorded/imported tracks preserved.>>>

Someone needs to correct that. There are awkward parts of your edit that do not get saved...like UNDO.

Koz

Nowhere in that process did you actually trash Audacity. You trash the program files and the plugins, but the guts of Audacity is held in the preference files. Trash Mac Audacity Preferences http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8250&hilit=problems+with+save+with+export&star...

By the way, never move any of those oddball files around or delete any of them, or change their name. That will kill the project and your show.

Koz

Audacity doesn't Save sound files. It saves Projects. Projects are enormously complicated affairs suitable for large scale, complicated editing. Probably not what you want. If you're looking for a simple sound file of your show, File > Export As WAV should do it for you. If you installed the "l...

It would be good to separate the two halves of your task. Generating specific level tones isn't that hard. The 0dBFS reference tends to carry well all over the world assuming you're all working from the same audio specifications. You are after dBSPL. Sound Pressure Level. That's a very different thi...